Swiss to vote for new parliament

Source: BBC News

Swiss voters are set to elect a new parliament, with the far-right expected to strengthen its position.

The Swiss People's Party (SVP), already the country's largest party, has campaigned on an anti-immigration platform.

The SVP won nearly 29% of the vote in the last election in 2007.

Since then it has successfully campaigned for a ban on minarets and for the automatic deportation of foreigners who commit certain crimes.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15418331

The majority of immigrants in Switzerland are Caucasian..

You use whatever term makes you happy.

Go back and read the quote I cited.

I was trying to pass along that racism is not at the heart of it.
its closer to the anti Irish attitude here long ago, more anti-immigrant/cultural type BS...

imagery. I mean, really--would images of incoming Norwegians or Finns--or even the Irish-- have the same effect?

They're pushing the "No dusky folk" button, make no mistake.

Just sayin'.....

trampling on the Swiss flag.

The text reads, Enough! Stop mass-immigration, Swiss people vote SVP...



Yesterday my daughter took part in a "flash mob" demonstration against the SVP at the Basel train station.

The far-right Swiss People's Party put up shocking anti-immigration posters four years ago and took the largest share of the vote in the country's modern history. So they're doing it again this time around.

A poster in the German-speaking part of the country shows black boots marching over the Swiss flag.

One in French-speaking areas shows a condom plastered over the European Union's banner, proclaiming "Swiss protection against the European virus."

And the scare tactics seem to be working. The anti-immigrant party looks set to repeat its 2007 election victory on Sunday, with opinion polls putting it in first place as voters cast ballots for the federal parliament.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/23/world/europe/switzerland-elections/

Scare tactics from a right-wing party. I'm shocked, shocked that such a thing could happen. Not sure if the Swiss right is ahead of ours or behind, but there seems to be a common theme - blame the "others" for our problems and "We want our country back from 'them'".

Can't be trusted.

I'm keeping a close eye on chimneys, too!

Islamophobes have been popularizing the claim that “not all Muslims are terrorists, but (nearly) all terrorists are Muslims.” Despite this idea becoming axiomatic in some circles, it is quite simply not factual.

But what about across the pond? The data gathered by Europol strengthens my argument even further. (hat tip: Koppe) Europol publishes an annual report entitled EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report.

The results are stark, and prove decisively that not all terrorists are Muslims. In fact, a whopping 99.6% of terrorist attacks in Europe were by non-Muslim groups; a good 84.8% of attacks were from separatist groups completely unrelated to Islam. Leftist groups accounted for over sixteen times as much terrorism as radical Islamic groups. Only a measly 0.4% of terrorist attacks from 2007 to 2009 could be attributed to extremist Muslims.



Perception is not reality. Due to the right wing’s influence and propaganda, people mistakenly think that Islamic terrorism is the greatest threat to the Western world. It is even a commonly held belief that Islamic terrorism poses an existential threat–that the very survival of the Western world is at stake. Of course, the reality is that there are other groups that engage in terrorism on a much larger scale, yet these terrorist incidents are minimized. Acts of terrorism committed by Muslims are purposefully sensationalized and focused upon, culminating in the idea that “(nearly) all terrorists are Muslims.”

http://www.loonwatch.com/2010/01/terrorism-in-europe/

A decade of fearmongering has certainly left its mark on the collective psyche.

Hell, I get uneasy when I see middle-eastern looking people on the same plane as me and I KNOW it's STUPID. Damn it.
But you get bombarded with the islamist terror threat message 24/7. It has to leave a mark at one point.

This is a level of propaganda success Hitler and Stalin could only have dreamt about.

The Swiss are a bigoted and socially conservative bunch.